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Bug#809451: sponsorship-requests: librep/0.92.5-1 [ITA]



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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 08:00:11PM +0000, Jose M Calhariz wrote:
> So I am searching for
> someone that can help sponsor the packages, close the ITA and help me
> fix the last bits for making the packages fit for Debian.
> 
> The packages are very old.  I can't update sawfish without updating
> it's build-depends so starting with librep.  The latest changes are
> on collab-maint and being tested in two of my PC for since August.

ok, there a bunch of things I'd like to see before uploading this.

* d/control:
  + bump standards-version to the last policy release, 3.9.6
    - this also requires adding stuff to d/rules.  maybe just use dh?
  + canonicalize Vcs-* (for -Browser please use https)
* use source/format 3.0 (quilt)
  + so drop quilt build-dep
  + and also the include in d/rules can go
  + note: I won't upload stuff without d/source/format without a very
    good reason.
* d/README.source is outdated.  moreover if you move to 3.0 (quilt) you
  can just drop it.
* d/rules:
  + the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS thing about noopt can go, afaik dpkg takes
    care of it nowadays
  + please use dh-autoreconf (aka, #744619, you even have a patch!)
  + can you use the short dh format?  (I can even live without, it's
    just I prefer quite more dh over plain debhelper)
  + for the 'version' variable, please use `dpkg-parsechangelog -S`
    instead of sed
  + I didn't really check, but do you really need to do such mess by
    generating the .install files at build time?  seems, well... doesn't
    *look* needed, at least.
* you have a librep9.symbols, probably you should rename it, and update
  to have the newer symbols, and remove the old ones.
* please bump to debhelper compat 9
  + this will also make (or at least help) make the lib multiarch-able
    - for this to work you need to start using dh_auto_configure instead
      of manual calling ./configure, though
    - note that with this several .install will need an update
    - I see you already had troubles with --host and --build configure
      flags: 1) I wonder why you need --host at all, we are not
      cross-compiling... 2) dh_auto_configure takes care of --build.
    - suggestion: stop fiddling so much, and use dh + dh_auto_configure.
* librep-dev.links => no, please.  linking /usr/share/doc/<pkg>
  directory ain't nice at all, why is that in first place?
  + but if you don't want to change it now it's fine, note that just
    removing it and let dh take care of it isn't enough, you need a
    maintscript for that
  + I see there already are preinst snippet to remove the directory.  my
    reaction to this is: wtf?  it does so quite unconditionally and -.-'
* d/copyright:
  + I'd appreciate a DEP-5 copyright format (but I can live without)
* trailing whitespaces:
  + d/rules:46


it seems that this upload is going to start a library transition.
If so, then you need to upload to experimental, and follow
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions or, am I missing
something?
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